Cleaning Your Whip Mix Plastic Vac-U-Mixer Bowls

500ml bowl resized 600 Keeping your mixing bowls clean and in good condition is an important part of ensuring proper outcomes when mixing gypsums and investments. To clean mixing bowls we recommend using Gyp-Strip, a highly affective gypsum remover that helps remove plaster, stone and gypsum investments from mixing bowls, acrylic dentures, denture flasks, casting rings and non-aluminum articulators. However, there are other industries outside of dental who use our plastic vac-u-mixer bowls and Gyp-Strip is ineffective.

If you are mixing material other than gypsum or investment here are some guidelines & solvent compatibility charts to help you choose a proper cleaning agent.

Materials Which Did Not Affect the Bowl within 1-Year

Calcium Chloride, 2.5%	Citric Acid, 10%	Ethylene Glycol	Glycerin
Heptane	Hydrogen Peroxide, 10%	Methanol, 5%	Oleic Acid
Soap Solution, USP	Sodium Carbonate, 2.5%	Sodium Chloride, 10%	Sodium Hydroxide, 1%
Sulfuric Acid, 3%	Turpentine	Water	Crude Oil

Note: Any substance not in the following table may cause the bowl to soften, warp or dissolve

Materials Which Will Swell, Soften or Warp the Bowl within One Year

Acetic Acid, 5%	Ammonium Hydroxide, 10%	Carbon Disulfide*	Carbon Tetrachloride
Chloroform	Ethylene Alcohol, 50%	Ethylene Alcohol, 95%	Formaldehyde, 35%*
Gasoline, Regular	Sulfuric Acid, 30%	Xylene

*Whip Mix bowl lid may not be compatible

Materials Which Will Dissolve or Disintegrate the Bowls within 1-Year

Acetone	Butyl Acetate	Ethyl Acetate	Ethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether
Ethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether Acetate	Hydrochloric Acid, 10%	Methanol, 100%	Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Methyl Isoamyl Ketone	Nitric Acid	Phenol, 5%

Note: Any substance not listed in the table above has not been tested

Clean Worn Bowls resized 600 Remember, these mixing bowls, even with regular cleaning, are not meant to last a lifetime. If you are seeing any deep scratches, material retention after cleaning or loss of expansion in phosphate investments then it is probably time to replace them. Otherwise, we highly recommend you replace your bowls every 2-5 years.